Works Cited list should be alphabetized by the first word of each entry.
Use "hanging indents":
Type your citation in normal format
Highlight all of the citations
Select "Format" from the toolbar at the top of hte screen; select "Paragraph" from the drop-down menu
In the "Paragraph" formatting box (make sure that "Indents & Spacing" is selected from the tabs at the top of the box), in the "Indentation" section, under the "Special" drop-down menu, select "Hanging."
BOOKS
Although it is unlikely that you will ever find a book with all of the components of the citation listed below, this is an example showing the order of all citation elements. FOr details on how to format specific book citations see the examples below.
Use this format for authors; if editors, then use: Name(s), ed(s).
Lastname, Firstname, Firstname Lastname, and Firstname Lastname. "Title of Essay or Chapter." Title ofBook. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Edition number. Volume number. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.
Lastname, Firstname, Firstname Lastname, and Firstname Lastname.
Use this field for authors of an entire book, editors of an entire book - use format: Name(s), ed(s). or ; authors of a chapter in a book.
Book with One Author
General Format:
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.
Book with Two to Three Authors
General Format:
Lastname, Firstname, Firstname Lastname, and Firstname Lastname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.
Book with More Than Three Authors
If there are more than three authors, you may choose to list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (Latin for "and others") in place of the subsequent authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page.
Example:
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.
or
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition.
Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.
Book with a Corporate Author or Organization
Example:
American Medical Association. Guide to Good Health. New York: Random House, 2006. Print.
An Edition of a Book
There are two types of editions in book publishing: a book that has been published more than once in different editions and a book that is prepared by someone other than the author (typically an editor).
A Subsequent Edition:
Cite the book as you normally would, but add the number of the edition after the title.
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004. Print.
A Work Prepared by an Editor, but attributed to an originating author:
Cite the book as you normally would, but add the editor after the title.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Margaret Smith. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.
A Book by an Editor (chapters or essays are not attributed to individual authors)
List by editor(s) followed by a comma and "ed." or, for multiple editors, "eds" (for edited by).
Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, eds. Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.
Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Print.
A Work in an Anthology or Collection (chapters or essays are attributed to individual authors)
Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book. General Format:
Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Campbell, John. "The Right to Bear Arms." Gun Control: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Ben Rafoth. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2006. 24-34. Print.
Article in a Reference Book (e.g. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries)
For entries in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other single volume reference works, cite as you would any other work in a collection but do not include the publisher information. Also, if the reference book is organized alphabetically, as most are, do not list the volume or the page number of the article or item.
"Ideology." The American Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed. 1997. Print.
A Multivolume Work
When citing only one volume of a multivolume work, include the volume number after the work's editor or translator, or after the edition number if present.
Multivolume work with authors attributed to individual entries:
Wachal, Barbara. "Louisiana Purchase." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 5. New York: Gale Group, 2006. 30-42. Print.
Multivolume work with only an editor but no authors attributed to individual works.
"Absetzen." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians." Ed. Stanley Sadie. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 2006. 50-63. Print.
An Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword
When citing an introduction, a preface, a forward, or an afterword, write the name of the author(s) of the piece you are citing. Then give the name of the part being cited, which should not be italicized or enclosed in quotation marks.
Farrell, Thomas B. Introduction. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. By Farrell. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. 1-13. Print. If the writer of the piece is different from the author of the complete work, then write the full name of the principal work's author after the word "By." For example, if you were to cite Hugh Dalziel Duncan’s introduction of Kenneth Burke’s book Permanence and Change, you would write the entry as follows:
Duncan, Hugh Dalziel. Introduction. Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose. By Kenneth Burke. 1935. 3rd ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984. xiii-xliv. Print.
Poem or Short Story
Examples:
Kincaid, Jamaica. "Girl." The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. Ed. Tobias Wolff. New York: Vintage, 1994. 306-07. Print.
If the specific literary work is part of the an author's own collection (all of the works have the same author), then there will be no editor to reference:
Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Selected Poems. New York: Dover, 1991. 12-19. Print.
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Abbreviations Commonly Used with Electronic Sources
If publishing information is unavailable for entries that require publication information such as publisher (or sponsor) names and publishing dates, MLA requires the use of special abbreviations to indicate that this information is not available. Use n.p. to indicate that neither a publisher nor a sponsor name has been provided. Use n.d. when the Web page does not provide a publication date.
When an entry requires that you provide a page but no pages are provided in the source (as in the case of an online-only scholarly journal or a work that appears in an online-only anthology), use the abbreviation n. pag.
Citing an Entire Web Site
It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site.
Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.
General Format:
Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher),
date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
Examples: The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 April 2008.
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006.
An Article from an Online Database (or Other Electronic Subscription Service)
General Format:
Examples:
Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. “Nature's Rotary Electromotors.” Science 29 Apr. 2005: 642-44. Science Online. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.
Source: The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2008. Web. 27 Dec. 2008.
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These web-based practice exercises challenge students at different levels. They also present opportunities for differentiated learning or to allow students to work their way through practice experiences before doing written citations.
MLA Format
MLA Citation Game: drag the components into place and check your work
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
MLA Citation Style for Works Cited
GENERAL RULES
Works Cited list should be alphabetized by the first word of each entry.Use "hanging indents":
BOOKS
Although it is unlikely that you will ever find a book with all of the components of the citation listed below, this is an example showing the order of all citation elements. FOr details on how to format specific book citations see the examples below.Use this format for authors; if editors, then use: Name(s), ed(s).
Lastname, Firstname, Firstname Lastname, and Firstname Lastname. "Title of Essay or Chapter." Title of Book. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Edition number. Volume number. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.
Book with One Author
General Format:
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.
Book with Two to Three Authors
General Format:
Lastname, Firstname, Firstname Lastname, and Firstname Lastname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000. Print.
Book with More Than Three Authors
If there are more than three authors, you may choose to list only the first author followed by the phrase et al. (Latin for "and others") in place of the subsequent authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page.Example:
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. Print.
or
Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition.
Book with a Corporate Author or Organization
Example:
American Medical Association. Guide to Good Health. New York: Random House, 2006. Print.
An Edition of a Book
There are two types of editions in book publishing: a book that has been published more than once in different editions and a book that is prepared by someone other than the author (typically an editor).A Subsequent Edition:
Cite the book as you normally would, but add the number of the edition after the title.
Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004. Print.
A Work Prepared by an Editor, but attributed to an originating author:
Cite the book as you normally would, but add the editor after the title.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Margaret Smith. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.
A Book by an Editor (chapters or essays are not attributed to individual authors)
List by editor(s) followed by a comma and "ed." or, for multiple editors, "eds" (for edited by).Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, eds. Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.
Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Print.
A Work in an Anthology or Collection (chapters or essays are attributed to individual authors)
Works may include an essay in an edited collection or anthology, or a chapter of a book.General Format:
Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.
Example:
Campbell, John. "The Right to Bear Arms." Gun Control: Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Ben Rafoth. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2006. 24-34. Print.
Article in a Reference Book (e.g. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries)
For entries in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other single volume reference works, cite as you would any other work in a collection but do not include the publisher information. Also, if the reference book is organized alphabetically, as most are, do not list the volume or the page number of the article or item."Ideology." The American Heritage Dictionary. 3rd ed. 1997. Print.
A Multivolume Work
When citing only one volume of a multivolume work, include the volume number after the work's editor or translator, or after the edition number if present.Multivolume work with authors attributed to individual entries:
Wachal, Barbara. "Louisiana Purchase." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 5. New York: Gale Group, 2006. 30-42. Print.
Multivolume work with only an editor but no authors attributed to individual works.
"Absetzen." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians." Ed. Stanley Sadie. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 2006. 50-63. Print.
An Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword
When citing an introduction, a preface, a forward, or an afterword, write the name of the author(s) of the piece you are citing. Then give the name of the part being cited, which should not be italicized or enclosed in quotation marks.Farrell, Thomas B. Introduction. Norms of Rhetorical Culture. By Farrell. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993. 1-13. Print.
If the writer of the piece is different from the author of the complete work, then write the full name of the principal work's author after the word "By." For example, if you were to cite Hugh Dalziel Duncan’s introduction of Kenneth Burke’s book Permanence and Change, you would write the entry as follows:
Duncan, Hugh Dalziel. Introduction. Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose. By Kenneth Burke. 1935. 3rd ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984. xiii-xliv. Print.
Poem or Short Story
Examples:
Kincaid, Jamaica. "Girl." The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. Ed. Tobias Wolff. New York: Vintage, 1994. 306-07. Print.
If the specific literary work is part of the an author's own collection (all of the works have the same author), then there will be no editor to reference:
Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Selected Poems. New York: Dover, 1991. 12-19. Print.
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Abbreviations Commonly Used with Electronic Sources
If publishing information is unavailable for entries that require publication information such as publisher (or sponsor) names and publishing dates, MLA requires the use of special abbreviations to indicate that this information is not available. Use n.p. to indicate that neither a publisher nor a sponsor name has been provided. Use n.d. when the Web page does not provide a publication date.When an entry requires that you provide a page but no pages are provided in the source (as in the case of an online-only scholarly journal or a work that appears in an online-only anthology), use the abbreviation n. pag.
Citing an Entire Web Site
It is necessary to list your date of access because web postings are often updated, and information available on one date may no longer be available later. Be sure to include the complete address for the site.Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given.
General Format:
Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher),
Examples:
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 April 2008.
Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006.
An Article from an Online Database (or Other Electronic Subscription Service)
General Format:
Examples:
Junge, Wolfgang, and Nathan Nelson. “Nature's Rotary Electromotors.” Science 29 Apr. 2005: 642-44. Science Online. Web. 5 Mar. 2009.
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal 50.1 (2007): 173-96. ProQuest. Web. 27 May 2009.
Source:
The Purdue OWL. Purdue U Writing Lab, 2008. Web. 27 Dec. 2008.
1. //CITATION//
support.library.ewu.edu/reference/tutorial/flash/citation.html
2. TILT - //MLA Citation// Game
Now that you've learned the basics of MLA citation style, test your knowledge in the MLA citation game! previous page.
old.cypresscollege.edu/~tilt/module3/hotpotatoes.htm
3. //Citation// Game
This guide includes examples of citation styles most commonly used by students at ... The Everything Bagel: 20 rounds of ACS, APA, Chicago (note) and MLA. ...
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4. //Citation// Practice Links
Dec 19, 2008 ... MLA and/or APA Formats. Practice Quiz for Citations and Reference Pages: choose the correct citation from a group of examples ...
www.classroomtech.org/copyright/onlinepractice.htm
5. [PDF]
//MLA// Works Cited Practice Exercise
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
MLA Works Cited Practice Exercise. Fall 2006. Plagiarism. Directions: Attend “Research 3: How to Use MLA Format” or view the online tutorial at ...
www.richlandcollege.edu/library/pdfs/mla-exercise.pdf
6. //MLA// Formatting and Style Guide - The OWL at Purdue
Sep 23, 2009 ... Research and Citation. Annotated Bibliographies · APA Formatting and .... The Purdue OWL is no longer supporting resources for the old MLA ...
owl.english.purdue.edu › The OWL at Purdue -
7. Practice //MLA Citation//
Practice MLA Citation. Each of the following citations contains one mistake. Choose the answer that would solve the problem. Brodhead, Richard H. "Hawthorne ...
anywhere.tennessee.edu/iei/laap/eng1010/mla/practice.htm -
8. Practice Writing a //Citation//
Becoming familiar with how to write a MLA style citation is an important skill! This exercise will give you practice writing a MLA citation. ...
www.topsy.org/Misc/Chapter4Page2.html -
9. How to cite a video game in //MLA// Format? - Yahoo! Answers
Jun 10, 2008 ... I have to cite a video game in MLA format and I wa…
answers.yahoo.com › ... › Homework Help - 17 hours ago -
10. //MLA Citation// Examples
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Style is widely used for identifying research sources. In MLA style you briefly credit sources with parenthetical ...
honolulu.hawaii.edu › ... › Understanding the Library › MLA Style// - Cached - Similar